A Basingstoke drug dealer who humiliatingly robbed a rival runner in a park boasted about making money in the months leading up to her arrest, a court has heard.

Judge Martin Spencer found that Paige Taylor had allowed herself to be used by drugs gangs.

The court heard how the 24-year-old was forced to supply her mother with Class A drugs, and she threatened to make her homeless if she did not.

It came out at the sentencing of the woman, from St Michael's Road in South Ham, in connection with the murder of Taylor Williams.

A jury convicted Miss Taylor of robbery and conspiracy to rob in the events leading up to the death of the 18-year-old.

She had not been in the room when Mr Williams was murdered, but had played a role in a conspiracy to rob his Ray county lines drugs network.

Additionally, Winchester Crown Court previously heard how she used a spoon to remove drugs from the bottom of a rival runner at Bermuda Park in Popley earlier that evening.

Representing Miss Taylor, her solicitor Elizabeth Bussey Jones said: "Both of her parents had a history of Class A drugs and alcohol abuse.

"She contacted social services at the age of ten, requesting to go into care, and spent the next six years in children's homes.

"When she returned to Basingstoke, she initially managed to get good employment, but it was not long after that she was introduced to Class A drugs by her parents and became an addicted user."

The court was told that when she was living with her parents, she was introduced to drug dealers.

At some points, there were up to nine others she had not met staying in her home, which had been cuckooed.

Cuckooing is where drugs lines exploit addicts and vulnerable people, who allow them to use their property as a base of operations in exchange for drugs or money.

Ms Bussey Jones continued to say that Miss Taylor's mother threatened to make her daughter homeless should she not supply her with a certain amount of Class A drugs a day, and that she would be "not her kid".

The court was told how police raided the 24-year-old's house in Paddock Road in 2018, just under a year before the murder of Mr Williams, where £2,600 of Class A drugs had been found.

Sentencing Miss Taylor, Judge Martin Spencer said: "Your mobile phone contained evidence of drugs supply.

"You were a willing participant, boasting about making money some time before your arrest.

"You allowed your house to be used by a London-based criminal gang."

Talking about the moments after the fight inside Kingfisher House that led to Mr Williams's death, he added: "You pretended that you was going to get Taylor Williams some help, and relying on that, [an associate of Mr Williams] ran to the station and caught a train.

"He rang 999, but you did not. You returned to Bennet Close, where the heroin was distributed, and then you, with Soyege, left Basingstoke for Reading, where you were arrested.

"I take into account all that I have heard and read about you.

"You had an exceptionally difficult childhood, you then arranged for yourself to be taken into care, and you were introduced to class A drugs by your own parents.

"This has left you with PTSD, manifesting by flashbacks and nightmares."

The judge gave Miss Taylor credit for her good progress, having completed a drugs detoxification programme in prison within three months of her arrest in September 2019.

He sentenced the 24-year-old to four years in prison for the robbery in Bermuda Park, six years for the conspiracy to rob in Kingfisher House, and twelve months each for two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.

However, reduced by the principle of totality and mitigation, the full sentence was listed as seven years. Of that, she is expected to serve half.